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Confirmed: You can literally throw your negative thoughts away

According to new research in Psychological Science, writing down your negative thoughts and tossing them in the garbage can erase your bad mood. …

In one of Petty’s experiments, 83 people were asked to write down thoughts on their body image, then either throw them away or keep them. The results: People who kept their thoughts were more likely to side in favor of their notes–so if they wrote negative notes, they rated themselves more negatively–but those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.

The results: People who kept their thoughts were more likely to side in favor of their notes–so if they wrote negative notes, they rated themselves more negatively–but those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.

People who kept their thoughts were more likely to side in favor of their notes–so if they wrote negative notes, they rated themselves more negatively–but those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.

Makes no sense.

Two people think that they look like fat cows and write that thought down on a piece of paper.

One keeps the thought. The other throws it away in the trash.

“…those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.”

So the person who threw away the piece of paper still thinks he looks like a fat cow.